Honora Howell Chapman was born and raised in Pasadena, California; her family has
roots in the San Joaquin Valley reaching back to the 1870s. She attended James A.
Garfield Elementary and Mayfield Junior and Senior Schools. After studying abroad
at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome and at the Stanford Villa
in Florence, she received her B.A. and Ph.D. in Classics at Stanford University. Besides
serving as a lecturer at Stanford, she lectured at Santa Clara University for six
years. In 2002, she came to CSU, Fresno and became Coordinator of Classics. She received
the Provost’s Award for Promising New Faculty and tenure in 2006. From 2000-2008 she
served as the co-chair of the Josephus Seminar/Group of the Society of Biblical Literature,
and she is the co-author with Steve Mason of Flavius Josephus: Translation and Commentary, ed. Steve Mason, vol. 1a: Judean War 2, Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2008. She helped organize the CSU, Fresno College of Arts and
Humanities Honors Program and taught its first cohort in 2006; she also serves on
the faculty of the Smittcamp Family Honors College and was promoted to Director in Spring 2009. She has appeared on the History Channel
and local radio and television broadcasts.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:

Coordinator of Classics Program: Mentor and advise students in undergraduate and graduate
studies in ancient languages and history, prepare students for master’s and doctoral
applications

Administrator of scholarships from McClatchy endowment fund for Classics

Organizer of endowed Phebe McClatchy Conley annual lectures (scheduled in co-ordination
with the Smittcamp Colloquium and given by prominent ancient historians, archaeologists,
and philologists), 2002-present

Administrator of scholarships for Classics minors funded by annual grant from the
Bertha and John Garabedian Foundation, 2005-present

Adviser and mentor for Smittcamp Honors students in Classics and other fields

University mentor for first-generation students, 2005-present

Mentor for three students in Ronald McNair Program, 2003-present

Faculty speaker at McNair orientations and workshops on recommendations, 2004-present

Mentor for student with Sally Casanova Scholarship, 2004-5

Reader for five History MA theses (on mos maiorum during the Punic Wars, prosopography
of the late Roman Republic, the Virgin Mary in 15th-century Spain and the New World,
battle trophies in Greek and Roman warfare, the Athenian navy), 2005-present

Taught up to eight core curriculum courses on quarter system each year: Survey of
Ancient Western History (History and Classics), Medieval and Renaissance History (History),
History of Early Christianity (History, Classics, and Religious Studies), History
of the Roman Empire (History and Classics), The World of St. Augustine (History and
Religious Studies), Classical Literature (English and Classics), Classical Tragedy
(Classics, English, and Theatre; writing intensive), Women in Ancient Rome (Classics,
English, and Women and Gender Studies), Cicero: Oratory and Rhetoric, Second Year
Latin, First Year Greek

Lecturer (9/97-6/99) and Teaching Fellow, Department of Classics: Origins of Christianity (Continuing Studies), First Year Greek, Intensive First
Year Greek, New Testament Greek (new course for department), First Year Latin, Third
Year Latin: Tacitus, Third Year Latin: Augustine, Second Year Latin: Ovid and Livy,
Second Year Latin: Cicero: Philosophy and Politics

Teaching Assistant, Department of Classics: History of the Roman Empire, Classical
Politics (writing intensive), Classical Athletics, Intensive First Year Latin

Creator of Teaching Library for Department of Classics (wrote the $2,000 grant, bought
all the books, organized half-day meeting of all graduate students in order to assemble
binders of useful teaching materials)

Professional Service

Co-chair of Josephus Group (with James McLaren, 2005-2008; with Steve Mason as Co-chair
of Josephus Seminar, 1999-2004), at annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature,
which involved leading diverse group of international scholars dedicated to Brill
Josephus Project (dedicated to producing the first comprehensive translation and commentary
of all the works of Josephus), organizing panels of international scholars and students
from various fields and backgrounds on themes we chose, mentoring young scholars,
and chairing the sessions each year; see http://pace.cns.yorku.ca/York/york/index.htm for most of the papers

Member of Managing Committee, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2007-present

Member of Editorial Board, Pacific Journal, 2/07-present (latest issue focused on the environment)

Chair of Religion and Cultural Identity in Ancient and Medieval Europe Panel at the
American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch Annual Meeting, 8/03

Outside reader of articles on Josephus submitted for publication in books and journals

Grant Reviewer for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2008

“Josephus,” in Blackwell Companion of Ancient History, forthcoming in 2010

“What Josephus Sees: The Temple of Peace and the Jerusalem Temple as Spectacle in
Text and Art,” an invited paper presented at the Craven Seminar on Josephus, Cambridge,
2007, and Loyola College in Maryland, 10/08, forthcoming in Phoenix (2009)

“Homer’s Trees in Life and Death,” Pacific Journal 3 (2008) 1-15; originally a paper presented at the Living Well conference of the
CSU, Fresno Philosophy and Religious Studies Department, Yosemite, 4/04

“‘Rachel weeping for her children’: Ancient and Modern Interpretations of Non-Combatant
Children Killed in Warfare,” paper at PAMLA annual meeting, 11/08

"Josephus and the Cannibalism of Mary (BJ 6.199-219)," in ed. J. Marincola, A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography, Blackwell, 2007, 419-426

"Masada in the 1st and 21st Centuries," in Making History: Josephus and Historical Method, ed. Z. Rodgers, Leiden: Brill, 2007, 82-102; originally a paper presented at the
International Josephus Colloquium: Josephus and Archaeology, Chester Beatty Library,
Dublin, Ireland, 9/04

"Paul, Josephus, and the Judean Nationalistic and Imperialistic Policy of Forced Circumcision,"
in ’Ilu, Revista de Ciencias de las religiones 11 (2006), 131T-155; originally a paper presented to the Religion and Cultural Identity
in Ancient and Medieval Europe Panel at the American Historical Association Pacific
Coast Branch Annual Meeting, 8/03

"By the Waters of Babylon: Josephus and Greek Poetry,"in Josephus and Jewish History in Flavian Rome and Beyond, Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism series, G. Lembi and J. Sievers,
eds., Brill, 2005, 121-146; originally a paper presented at the International Josephus
Colloquium, Rome, 9/03

Spectacle and Theater in Josephus’s Bellum Judaicum, 2005 electronic publication on PACE (Project on Ancient Cultural Engagement) web
site: http://pace.cns.yorku.ca/York/york/index.htm (a more accessible, 21st-century way of making my dissertation available to scholarly
and general audience)

"Cedere maiori": Flavian Monuments and the Jews,” a paper presented at the joint session of the Hellenistic
Judaism Section and the Josephus Group at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical
Literature, Washington, D.C., 11/06

"The Passion of Pentheus: Other Possible Sources Reflecting the End of Euripides’
Bacchae," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Philological Association,
Montreal, 1/06

"'‘Slaughter of the Innocents': Children in Ancient and Modern War,” paper presented
at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Philadelphia, 11/05

"The Catechesis of a Herodian King," a paper presented at the Formation of Luke-Acts
session at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, 11/04; revised
and submitted as an article, “Luke-Acts: Instruction for a Herodian King?"

“‘We have conquered the world with our buildings, too’: Perspectives on Flavian Rome,”
paper presented at the Society of Biblical Literature International Meeting in Rome,
7/01

" A Myth for the World: Early Christian Reception of Infanticide and Cannibalism in Josephus, Bellum Judaicum 6.199-219," Society of Biblical Literature 2000 Seminar Papers, Atlanta, 2000, 359-378; a paper delivered in the Josephus Seminar at the Society
of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, 11/00

"Choosing Not to Hang His Harp: Josephus at Rome," paper presented at the Workshop
in Ancient Societies, organized by Erich Gruen at the Stanford Humanities Center,
2/00

"Playing the Roman Game of Death: Masada in Josephus, Bellum Judaicum 7," paper presented at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Instituto Universitario
de Ciencias de las Religiones, 6/99, and at the University of Rochester, NY, 2/99

"Fiction and History: Human Sacrifice and Cannibalism in the Novels and Josephus’s
Bellum Judaicum and Contra Apionem," paper presented at the American Philological Association Annual Meeting, 12/97

"Josephus and His Audience: Reading the Temple in the Antiquitates Judaicae," paper delivered for the Crossing Cultural Frontiers in Roman Historiography panel
at American Historical Association Annual Meeting, 1/96

Review of Steve Mason, Josephus and the New Testament, Hendrickson, 1992, Critical Review of Books in Religion, 1994, 231-235

"Josephus and His Readers: The Roman Triumph in Bellum Judaicum 7.118-162," paper delivered in the Hellenistic Judaism section at the annual meeting
of the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature, 11/92

Television, Radio, Print Interviews, and Popular Articles

Commentator for two-hour documentary on Masada, first aired on History Channel, both
nationally and internationally, 12/02 and in re-runs

Television show on Josephus. “Yesterday, Today, and Forever” television show, KNXT,
2/08

Television interview on “Jesus Family Tomb” controversy, CBS 47, 3/07

Panelist on seven “Forum for a Better Understanding” ( Da Vinci Code, Mary Magdalene, Gospel of Judas, the Incarnation, Good Friday prayer for the Jews,
myths in world religions) television shows, KNXT, 6/06-5/08

Interviews for stories in Fresno Alumni Magazine, 2004 and 2006

Radio interview (half hour) on KFSR on Alexander the Great, 11/04

Radio interview on KMJ (half hour) on Ancient Olympics and John the Baptist Cave Discovery,
8/20/04

Radio interview (half hour) on KFSR on Ancient Olympics, 8/15/04

Education, popular culture, and religion articles on victorhanson.com, 5/04-present

Guest lecturer for Social Studies at River Bluff Elementary School and Rio Vista Middle
School, Fresno, Spring and Fall 2003

Outreach to Eastside Preparatory School, East Palo Alto, CA, 1999-2002 (conducted
campus tours of Santa Clara University for high school students; participant in college
nights for middle school students at EPS)

Mentor at Sacred Heart Community Service, San José, 1998-2001 (worked closely with
Latina teenager who graduated from high school; tutored other children from inner
city, ages 6-17)

Helped set up shelter for abused women and children, Santa Clara, 2001

Lecture on “Love in Early Christianity and the ‘Problem’ of Mary Magdalene,” Osher
Group at CSU, Fresno, 2/2008

Lecturer for FLAIR on “Josephus” and “Christmas,” CSU, Fresno, 2004 and 2005

Habitat for Humanity: helped build three houses in San José, CA, 1998

Non-Academic University Experience

Stanford University, Department of Public Safety, 1984-1986

Media Coordinator, Special Services Unit

Conceived, wrote, edited, and distributed first safety and security manual (Stanford
Farm Almanac) that informed the entire university campus community (staff, faculty,
and students at all facilities) of all safety and security issues

Responded to requests from departments/offices for safety material and re-keying of
doors